Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNow and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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